Terror in the Jungle
| Terror in the Jungle | |
| Number | 24 |
| Broadcast Date | November 25, 2010 |
| Episode Length | 1:00:26 |
| Hosts | Andrew Mayne, Brian Brushwood, Justin Robert Young |
Terror in the Jungle is the twenty-fourth episode of the Weird Things Podcast.With Justin and Andrew dying an agonizing death in a southeast Asian jungle from unknown causes, Brian has mere seconds to solve the mystery and save their lives. Also, find out who ends up condemning 99.9% of humanity to extinction out of a perverse sense of politeness.
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Before they get into the scenarios, Andrew and Justin apologize to Brian for making fun of Brian's use of the word "driver" when referring to planes in the previous episode. They found this excerpt from a book called "Sled Driver", written by an SR-71 pilot.
Virus Alert
Andrew begins by talking about the threat of the rapid spreading of diseases because of international air travel. However, people have been worrying about this for a long time, with the creation of the railroads and all the way back to 1492 with the discovery of America. But now, we are getting to the point where people can engineer diseases for biological warfare purposes. Andrew admits that he is more afraid of a rouge scientist creating a super-flu than he is of a terrorist attack. Luckily, a story just came out about a new test for ebola. With just a drop of blood you get a quick and accurate reading. This can be extremely useful in flying between countries. Brian then admits that he really doesn't care about germs, on his tour he shakes hundreds of hands and then sticks a nail into his eye. He even admits that he only washes his hands when there are other people in the bathroom.
They then talk about how new discoveries show that we may be able to fight a virus even after it infects your cells. This leads Brian to the conclusion that nobody needs to worry about diseases anymore.
Terror in the Jungle
Andrew asks his co-hosts what their biggest fear would be if they were in a jungle in South East Asia and both say they are afraid of the indigenous people killing or kidnapping them. Andrew agrees that these are valid fears and are often reported along with all sorts of other stories about strange creatures in the jungle.
So the three of them are in the jungle exploring, Justin and Andrew are walking ahead of Brian, who has only a gun. Suddenly, Andrew who is out of sight lets out a blood curdling scream. Brian, being the brave man that he is, has Justin go over to investigate. Once Justin is out of sight, Brian hears a gun shot and another blood curdling scream. In order to scare of any scary creatures that may be lurking, Brian fires his gun wildly. Once he feels that all of the attackers have fled, Brian goes forward to find his friends. When he finds the bodies, he can't quite see any wounds, but his co-hosts are on the verge of death. Brian determines that it is a snake bite, however the bites are on their necks. He attempts to talk with Justin and Andrew, but neither are able to speak intelligibly. Suddenly Brian sees a movement out of the corner of his eye, he fires off a few more rounds to try and scare off whatever is there.
Turns out, it actually was a snake that bit them. Scientists have found a snake that can jump off of trees and glide up to 100feet to attack its prey.
Conspiracy Theories
While Brian is out on tour in Utah, Bill Meeks comes up to him and asks to show him something really special. Since the Wi-Fi at the hotel is terrible, Brian decides to go with Bill. When Brian gets into the car, Bill puts a blind fold on Brian, because where they are going is top secret. After about an hour of driving, they finally arrive at a building in the middle of nowhere and they get into an elevator and go down 100 stories into the ground. After a few security checks, they put on clean suits and go into a room filled with vials of all sorts of different diseases including a man-made "superflu". This freaks Brian out to the point where he would only feel comfortable telling his family about what he saw. He feels that if he told the world, he would be targeted by the government and fall victim to the superflu.
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| Preceded by: "What If The Andromedans Are Jerks?" |
Terror in the Jungle |
Followed by: "Alien Gun Fetish" |